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Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Act 2024

Water services delivery plans and foundational information disclosure requirements - Ministerial powers in relation to water services delivery plans - Crown facilitator for water services delivery plans

25: Minister may appoint Crown facilitator

You could also call this:

"The Minister can choose someone to help councils with their water plans."

The Minister can choose a Crown facilitator to help with water services delivery plans. You might get a Crown facilitator if you are a territorial authority and you ask the Minister for one, or if the Minister thinks it would be helpful. The Minister can appoint one person or a group of people to be a Crown facilitator.

The Minister might think a Crown facilitator would be helpful if a territorial authority is unlikely to submit its plan on time, or if a group of authorities is having trouble agreeing on a plan. The Minister can also appoint a Crown facilitator if an authority is not following its own water services delivery plan, which goes against section 22.

If the Minister chooses a group of people to be a Crown facilitator, they must pick one of them to be in charge. The Crown facilitator can help a single territorial authority or a group of authorities that are working together on a joint water services delivery plan, as outlined in subpart 1.

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Part 2Water services delivery plans and foundational information disclosure requirements
Ministerial powers in relation to water services delivery plans: Crown facilitator for water services delivery plans

25Minister may appoint Crown facilitator

  1. The Minister may, in the circumstances set out in subsection (2), appoint a Crown facilitator for water services delivery plans to—

  2. a territorial authority; or
    1. a group of 2 or more territorial authorities that is proposing to submit, or that has submitted, a joint water services delivery plan.

      1. The Minister may appoint a Crown facilitator if—

      2. the territorial authority or the group of territorial authorities requests, in writing to the Minister, that the Minister do so and the Minister decides to grant that request; or
        1. the Minister believes, on reasonable grounds, that it would be beneficial to appoint a Crown facilitator because—
          1. the territorial authority or the group is otherwise unlikely to submit its plan to the Secretary in accordance with subpart 1; or
            1. in the case of a group of territorial authorities, the group is having difficulty agreeing on the terms of a joint plan; or
              1. contrary to section 22, the territorial authority or the group of territorial authorities has not given effect to its water services delivery plan.

              2. The Minister may appoint either 1 person or a panel of 2 or more persons to be a Crown facilitator.

              3. If the Minister appoints a panel to be a Crown facilitator, the Minister must appoint 1 member as the chairperson.